Speaker 1: What's up? Everybody?
Speaker 2: Welcome into a Monday edition to Texans All Access from
Speaker 2: Monday Texans Radio Studio. And don't worry, it's not twenty fourteen.
Speaker 2: It just might feel that way. As John Harris and
Speaker 2: Mark vandermir are with you this evening. And Mark, we
Speaker 2: have one of the best guests, one of the best
Speaker 2: gets we've ever gotten.
Speaker 1: As we bring in twenty fourteen's.
Speaker 2: Overall number one draft pick, Gidevion Clowney. We saw the
Speaker 2: news you texted me yesterday and you had a two
Speaker 2: word text I can't say on radio because I was
Speaker 2: helping my son move and I missed it.
Speaker 1: And as soon as I.
Speaker 2: Went to Twitter, I saw at Jadeveon Clowney signs with
Speaker 2: the Texans. This Mark, I'm I told him this is
Speaker 2: the greatest weird thing that's ever happened.
Speaker 3: You brought it up in a show I want to say,
Speaker 3: about a week or so ago, maybe longer. What do
Speaker 3: you think of signing Clowney? I'm thinking, come on, things
Speaker 3: like this don't happen. Just move on to the next topic.
Speaker 3: What are we thinking about here? And then I thought,
Speaker 3: but is he gonna want to come here? Does he
Speaker 3: want to be the man and get all the sacks
Speaker 3: and start and that kind of thing, because the team
Speaker 3: here needs a player at that position to play a role,
Speaker 3: and it could be a prominent role, could be a
Speaker 3: lot of snaps, as it turns out, because you never
Speaker 3: know what happens with rotation. And you mentioned playing him
Speaker 3: inside or whatever. But Johnny, when I saw it, I thought, oh,
Speaker 3: they're all in. We knew they were all in anyway.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 3: Their actions speak louder than words. With everything they've done
Speaker 3: this offseason, even adding to the defense, which was so
Speaker 3: good last year, but everything they've done offensively, Let's revamp
Speaker 3: the line again. Let's just go in on rebuilding, reloading,
Speaker 3: improving the line. Let's get David Montgomery. Let's go and
Speaker 3: then they do this. This is going to be a
Speaker 3: hard team to move the ball against. But we can
Speaker 3: get into all that, Johnny, this is a fantastic thing
Speaker 3: to have Jadeveon Clowney on the football team.
Speaker 5: Here.
Speaker 1: It is Mark and I with Jadeveon Clowney.
Speaker 3: Look who's in studio with us in battle red back
Speaker 3: where he belongs, Jadevion Clowny, JD.
Speaker 1: Great to see.
Speaker 3: How's it going.
Speaker 5: It's going good man, Excited to be back, looking forward
Speaker 5: the opportunity, can't wait to get going.
Speaker 2: Okay, I said this, I said, seeing you again. Now,
Speaker 2: you and I we've seen each other at different stops.
Speaker 2: Who's been great? This is like the best weird feeling
Speaker 2: that I've had in a while. How is it for
Speaker 2: you after eight years coming back into building?
Speaker 4: Oh it's same, It's very weird, but it's exciting.
Speaker 5: I told my fiance, I, me and my wife that
Speaker 5: I was like, it's gonna be a big, big difference
Speaker 5: for me after leaving for so long and coming back,
Speaker 5: But I'm looking forward to I think I've got a
Speaker 5: great team here. I can help contribute and you know,
Speaker 5: chasing that super Bowl.
Speaker 3: You left, but in many ways you never did because
Speaker 3: you are still a Houstonian and have been even though
Speaker 3: you've played for several other teams. What's that been like
Speaker 3: still being in Houston, JD.
Speaker 5: It's been great. And I've been raising my family. I
Speaker 5: got three beautiful kids, ten year old, a six year old,
Speaker 5: and a four year old, and they love Houston, born
Speaker 5: and raised here, and we've just been had the whole time,
Speaker 5: just been playing football all the places. But I've been
Speaker 5: watching from a distance, and it's been great and I'm
Speaker 5: just happy to be back in the building.
Speaker 2: So when you say that and you mentioned your wife, yes, sir,
Speaker 2: I think back to when you walked in this building
Speaker 2: in twenty fourteen, wide eyed, twenty twenty one years old.
Speaker 2: I just turned twenty one, I mean, no kids at
Speaker 2: that point, right to where you are now. What's probably
Speaker 2: the biggest change in you a as a person JD
Speaker 2: and as a player.
Speaker 5: Just growing up as far as becoming a man, learning
Speaker 5: more about myself.
Speaker 4: And being patient.
Speaker 5: My patients have grown, and just you know, just becoming
Speaker 5: a man, like having kids to teach you patients and yeah,
Speaker 5: teach you everything about life and it just can't rush
Speaker 5: with your stuff and how to do things slow and
Speaker 5: take your time and making decisions.
Speaker 4: And I think that's been.
Speaker 5: The biggest chance for me, getting married and you know,
Speaker 5: having kids and been in the family being great for me.
Speaker 3: Seven teams, Jadevian, and you look at each situation, it's
Speaker 3: all different, right, So every time you go somewhere you've
Speaker 3: been able to contribute, but each situation is different. What
Speaker 3: was that process like getting acclimated to each team and
Speaker 3: then being a success.
Speaker 5: Oh, man, it was difficult sometimes because sometimes going out
Speaker 5: the training camp and you know, try to jump to
Speaker 5: this team and a scheme in the middle of the season.
Speaker 5: But I always just say, at the end of the day,
Speaker 5: one thing you can do is play football, you know,
Speaker 5: and you a football player to be very instinctive. And
Speaker 5: I knew that about myself, so every time I walked
Speaker 5: out down so I might not know the playbook like
Speaker 5: that off the back, but I'm a very distinctive player
Speaker 5: of playing football. So I just let my instincts take over.
Speaker 5: And I just kept succeeding throughout my career playing no
Speaker 5: matter where I went, I just kept succeeding, playing at
Speaker 5: a high level.
Speaker 2: JAD, how much did you did you know Demiko Ryans
Speaker 2: before this process that you guys met before, because I know,
Speaker 2: I don't think you guys crossed over in a building
Speaker 2: that I can remember here.
Speaker 1: Did you have, you know, just knowledge of Demiko?
Speaker 2: What was kind of your thought about, Hey, I like
Speaker 2: what Demko's doing, I like what the defense is doing,
Speaker 2: and it's obviously your home here in Houston. How much
Speaker 2: did all that play a factor? Demiko Ryans very much
Speaker 2: a lot past seven eight years. Like I said, since
Speaker 2: he signed, I've been watching from a distance, like don
Speaker 2: he got that team ready to play them guys follow him,
Speaker 2: They bond in and you want to be a part
Speaker 2: of an organization like that and the guy that everybody's
Speaker 2: believing can lead. And for me watching that on TV
Speaker 2: and you I'm at home watching it on TV, I'm like,
Speaker 2: I can be a part of I know I can
Speaker 2: help that team. And when it was time and then
Speaker 2: I had the opportunity to come back, it was a
Speaker 2: no brainer for me. And it matter about the money
Speaker 2: and other teams that was called, I was like, oh man,
Speaker 2: I got a chance to go back to where it
Speaker 2: all started and try to finish it how I want
Speaker 2: to finish my career and my legacy and the place
Speaker 2: where it started. So that's what I was thinking about
Speaker 2: when I made my decision this offseason.
Speaker 3: How do you see yourself fitting in? Did they talk
Speaker 3: to you about that your role? Because some pretty good
Speaker 3: pass rushers.
Speaker 5: Here is no question, Like I said, I told them, guys,
Speaker 5: I know they got great pass rushers. I'm just a
Speaker 5: great player of myself. I just told them it ain't
Speaker 5: gonna be no fall off out of them three. You
Speaker 5: won't be able to tell the difference. So see, you know,
Speaker 5: I don't want to just keep speaking on I want
Speaker 5: to I'm gonna show me guys. So I'm just gonna
Speaker 5: show up every day and show them guys what I
Speaker 5: can do and contribute to help the team anyway I can.
Speaker 3: Johnny's already talking about moving you inside, sometimes inside, outside,
Speaker 3: you everywhere. Yeah, and you like that too, right, Yea.
Speaker 5: I played it all a lot here when I was
Speaker 5: When I was here, I played inside a lot, like
Speaker 5: rushing up the middle, over the guards, over the center.
Speaker 5: I feel like I can pretty much help any any
Speaker 5: way they can see me fit and I still dominate
Speaker 5: the run, game, still dominate, you know, getting to the quarterback,
Speaker 5: paying pressure. So you know, I just, like I said,
Speaker 5: having fun with it and continue to try to continue
Speaker 5: my career and know what other place to do it
Speaker 5: in back in Houston where I started.
Speaker 1: One of my favorite moments, JD. We were in the
Speaker 1: locker room. I don't if you remember this.
Speaker 2: We're in the locker room and I was interviewing somebody
Speaker 2: after the game, is player of the game. And I
Speaker 2: remember you looked at me and you're like, hey, you'll
Speaker 2: be talking to me.
Speaker 4: Next week, you feel me? Yeah, and you.
Speaker 1: I mean you called your shot.
Speaker 2: And then it was Indianapolis twenty sixteen and you had
Speaker 2: to sack on Andrew forced to fumble, kept him out
Speaker 2: of the end zone.
Speaker 1: So we were talking about that this morning.
Speaker 2: Do you have a player or a moment that you
Speaker 2: remember most from your first stint with the Texans that
Speaker 2: you got?
Speaker 6: You have?
Speaker 1: You have like you know what that one?
Speaker 2: Because I said to Mark, I have a couple of
Speaker 2: moments that didn't show up on the stat sheet. We
Speaker 2: had your interception against the Raiders in playoff game, which
Speaker 2: is cool. You had to touchdown against New England. Those
Speaker 2: are great stats on the stat sheet. I have some
Speaker 2: you chased now brand La fell.
Speaker 1: Against the Bengals. You almost caught it. That was pretty
Speaker 1: damn impressive.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 2: And then in the playoff game against the Patriots, up
Speaker 2: there you hit Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: I thought you broke him.
Speaker 4: Me too, I thought I got him, but.
Speaker 2: I thought you had it. I thought I didn't think
Speaker 2: he was getting up from that. But do you have
Speaker 2: one like a favorite memory?
Speaker 5: It was so many When it comes to ask you,
Speaker 5: I remember what we was playing, I want to say
Speaker 5: the Minnesota Vikers.
Speaker 4: One year.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I got some big hits on one of
Speaker 5: their running backs and I was just like it was them.
Speaker 5: Some of the best hits it went on helmet knockoffs,
Speaker 5: but yes, slide inside, boom boom, guys on the goal
Speaker 5: line trying to squeeze in and all of that just
Speaker 5: was played memories and especially against the coachs. Yeah, all
Speaker 5: the years playing against Andrew Luck and you know, making
Speaker 5: plays against the Vision was crazy for me, And you
Speaker 5: know that was how we always see that as being
Speaker 5: playing in tests, got to beat up on the division,
Speaker 5: so all of them division games, and me was so
Speaker 5: big that I always wanted to make plays and try
Speaker 5: to contribute. So that's all I kept thinking about, like
Speaker 5: what can I do to help the team and make plays.
Speaker 5: So it was so much that I could talk about
Speaker 5: on teams, Like you said, the playoff game, we try
Speaker 5: to make the run against the Raiders to pick six,
Speaker 5: talking for lost when I pulled the guy's hair down.
Speaker 5: Yeah that's right, that's one of great plays for me.
Speaker 5: And you know I was like I got a boy
Speaker 5: one dread so you know, yeah, well, so it was
Speaker 5: so much here, so much history for me and so
Speaker 5: much from part of my legacy that I had picked
Speaker 5: down in the first five years of my career making
Speaker 5: all Pro was here. You know, my feelt, like I said,
Speaker 5: raised my family here. So it's been great for me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, twenty sixteen is no, not because you were the
Speaker 3: number one defense in the league in this past year
Speaker 3: Texans number one defense in the league. We're talking yards
Speaker 3: per game, and that was you and Whitney just reaking
Speaker 3: have it up front along with everybody else. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: DJ Reader, Are you in touch with a lot of
Speaker 3: the guys still?
Speaker 4: I do.
Speaker 5: I work out with DJ Reader all the time, Okay,
Speaker 5: Kareem Jackson, Jonathan Jose, all them guys. I still stay
Speaker 5: in sush with him. You know, our kids hang out together.
Speaker 5: It's just been great just developing the relationships over the
Speaker 5: years and catedo on throughout my life. It's been great,
Speaker 5: even though I haven't been playing with them. You know,
Speaker 5: every all season I get up with him. I stay here,
Speaker 5: Jonathan Joe's I see his kids. DJ Reader, we got
Speaker 5: two boys now. It's like, hey, we were just blessed
Speaker 5: to continue to play the game we love and you know,
Speaker 5: and our kids get to watch us now, my kids
Speaker 5: and it's just been fun for me.
Speaker 2: From that standpoint. Them getting a chance to watch you
Speaker 2: on television. How cool is that for you? Because we've
Speaker 2: talked to people you know when they have kids, Like
Speaker 2: we saw DJ last year up in Detroit. We had
Speaker 2: long chat with him. It was good to see him.
Speaker 2: But when you're kids get a chance to watch you,
Speaker 2: what's that like?
Speaker 4: Man?
Speaker 5: You just don't want to let him down. My son
Speaker 5: know the game and he like it's so funny. I
Speaker 5: signed a Dallas late last year and my first game
Speaker 5: was Rusty against Green Bay Packerdson and after the game
Speaker 5: he was like, Dad.
Speaker 4: I know they wouldn't you out there.
Speaker 5: And I was like, son, I promise you if I
Speaker 5: don't do nothing, I'm gonna get better from here. You
Speaker 5: know they ain't gonna give back, but I'm gonna get
Speaker 5: nothing better. I just got knocked to rust out. He's
Speaker 5: like my dad was. He fell down a few times.
Speaker 5: I promise you sound getting better. But he noticed that
Speaker 5: type of stuff at ten years old. He watched the
Speaker 5: game tight now and I just be wanting to prove
Speaker 5: him that I can still go. So half of the
Speaker 5: stuff I do because of my kids, you know, I
Speaker 5: be consistent more consistent now in my career and work
Speaker 5: it out is because my son work out with and
Speaker 5: I do a lot of stuff to try to lead him,
Speaker 5: to show him how you're supposed to go about it.
Speaker 3: Thirteenth year in the league, and that's incredibly difficult to
Speaker 3: accomplish no matter who you are. So how have you
Speaker 3: changed over the years in terms of the way you
Speaker 3: take care of yourself, if at all? Because you came
Speaker 3: in and twenty fourteen, I mean that's a while ago,
Speaker 3: So how's that evolved for you?
Speaker 6: Man?
Speaker 5: It started crazy because, like I said, I got hurt
Speaker 5: my first game of my career. I probably played like
Speaker 5: seven eight snaps and had that microfraction. I came in
Speaker 5: at two seventy, you know, and I had to slim
Speaker 5: up because I couldn't. I had no more catlage on
Speaker 5: my knee for these years. But all these years, it's
Speaker 5: just been really developing a different way to attack my
Speaker 5: body as far as like getting inflammation out or you know,
Speaker 5: trying to get my knee flexion back. And over the year,
Speaker 5: I've just been increasing myself for getting better and better
Speaker 5: and better. And I know I'm getting older in the age,
Speaker 5: but my body started feeling better the later in my career,
Speaker 5: and it kind of helped me, you know, just getting
Speaker 5: healthier and taking care of I spent a lot of
Speaker 5: money on it. I spent a lot of money in
Speaker 5: my body. But it's also worked out for being paid
Speaker 5: off for me and I still get to play thirteen
Speaker 5: years in the lead. Like I said, it's been a blessing.
Speaker 5: I'm just blessed to be here, continue to be playing
Speaker 5: because it could have been over with a long time ago.
Speaker 5: I started, you know, I had injury, injury, injury, back
Speaker 5: to back to back to both of our girls too,
Speaker 5: my knee up here, all here, and then it started
Speaker 5: getting better. I just thank God for that because I
Speaker 5: didn't know at one point at time in my career,
Speaker 5: I didn't know what was gonna happen. I was like,
Speaker 5: I don't know, ma, I just couldn't get over the
Speaker 5: injury part of my first two years. And then I
Speaker 5: started getting better, you know, and it started coming together
Speaker 5: and then started kept making plays.
Speaker 2: Well, there are a lot of offensive linemen that would
Speaker 2: like for you have stepped away at that point, but
Speaker 2: you didn't.
Speaker 1: I remember.
Speaker 2: I think I can tell the story now. It was
Speaker 2: twenty eighteen we went to Denver and Jjo was hurt
Speaker 2: and j J wasn't playing, and we went we went
Speaker 2: back on the field. That was the Demeri that was
Speaker 2: the Marrius game. Yeah, that was when we had gotten
Speaker 2: the Marrius and de Marius was playing back in Denver
Speaker 2: with us and we ended up winning the game. Miss
Speaker 2: the field and all that, But I remember Jjo walked
Speaker 2: by me by halftime and he goes, you know, clowne
Speaker 2: ain't supposed to be playing. And I was like, what
Speaker 2: do you mean? He goes, you had like a I
Speaker 2: don't know what's the worst.
Speaker 1: What's the worst?
Speaker 6: You got?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 6: Great?
Speaker 1: Is grade one the worst? Or grade three?
Speaker 7: Three?
Speaker 1: Grade two? He's like he's got a grade three ruin issue.
Speaker 2: And I was like playing and you were playing that game,
Speaker 2: and I just remember it's like Klina shouldn't be out there,
Speaker 2: and I was like, and yeah, at the NFL level,
Speaker 2: you do have to do make sacrifices.
Speaker 1: You do play when you're when you're hurt. You know,
Speaker 1: there's difference between being hurt and injured.
Speaker 2: But at what point did you kind of have that
Speaker 2: epiphany of you know, what, how do I take care.
Speaker 1: Of my body a little bit better? When did you
Speaker 1: have When did that hit you?
Speaker 4: Probably when I left here.
Speaker 5: Okay, I was young, getting naives, and anybody could have
Speaker 5: got meen to do anything at twenty twenty one, especially
Speaker 5: when you drafted me here. You know, I didn't know
Speaker 5: no better. If I knew what I knew now, I
Speaker 5: probably would have told them, hey, just let me get healthy,
Speaker 5: fully healthy, and try to come back.
Speaker 7: Well.
Speaker 4: I would have to keep getting hurt.
Speaker 1: Sure.
Speaker 5: I just kept going out there, listen to other people
Speaker 5: tell me, oh, you can do it, and I went
Speaker 5: listened to myself and I kept hit myself in the situations.
Speaker 5: So it was like young, just being young. And as
Speaker 5: I got older, I started I to just take care
Speaker 5: of your body, you know, listen to your body. Don't
Speaker 5: let nobody else tell you how to go or where
Speaker 5: you should be at in six weeks.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 4: They put a timetable on me to get back healthy.
Speaker 5: And when it came to their point and I went there,
Speaker 5: I started saying in my head, I gotta go because
Speaker 5: it's past.
Speaker 4: It's six weeks, you know, that's what they told me.
Speaker 4: I should be feeling better.
Speaker 5: So I started trying to do stuff because other people
Speaker 5: are not myself at that point of time in my
Speaker 5: career when I was younger. As I got older, I
Speaker 5: started saying, just take care of me and everything and
Speaker 5: take care of itself. So that's what I changed that
Speaker 5: when I left.
Speaker 3: It's wild to me that we have a player here
Speaker 3: who is teammates with Andre Johnson and you're still with
Speaker 3: the Texans while you're back, you're originally with the Texans.
Speaker 3: But what do you make of the building, the facilities
Speaker 3: people around here, Because it's different than when you were here.
Speaker 5: It's time saying that it's so much. It's so different.
Speaker 5: It's so much better. To locker rooms amazing, Yeah, the
Speaker 5: weight rooms amazing, the upstairs put it upstairs and there. Yeah,
Speaker 5: it's crazy. I said, I couldn't even come up with it.
Speaker 5: How could they evolve that much and add that much
Speaker 5: in this building? But they figured it out. It's nice doing.
Speaker 5: The training room is huge now they scripted it. It
Speaker 5: looked so much bigger than when I was when I
Speaker 5: was here. The food great, yeah, yeah, yeah, I just
Speaker 5: ate that twice they had lamb chopped chicken.
Speaker 4: It was it was great. But it's just been great.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 5: Like I said, just I'm just happy to be back
Speaker 5: here back playing and continue my career here.
Speaker 2: So this morning we were doing our show kind of
Speaker 2: the corner as you you know, walk on the practice field.
Speaker 2: We're at that first corner when everybody walks by, so
Speaker 2: we expect you to say hi, that's tomorrow. But I
Speaker 2: saw the fans, fans going by, and they all wearing jerseys,
Speaker 2: and you know, saw Nico go by.
Speaker 1: I saw a CJ.
Speaker 2: Strad go by, and then I saw one woman that
Speaker 2: was walking by and she had a ninety Clowny jerseys on.
Speaker 2: People have not forgotten you around here, man, like they
Speaker 2: have not forgotten about you. There was an excitement yesterday
Speaker 2: when it was announced that you were coming back to
Speaker 2: the Texans, not just by by Mark and I. It
Speaker 2: was it was everybody like Clowny's coming back. There was
Speaker 2: like this big excitement. What do you have to say
Speaker 2: to the fans that still have that love for you?
Speaker 2: And now it's Texans fans can get a chance to
Speaker 2: see you a getting play.
Speaker 5: Hey man, I appreciate it. I'm so excited, so blessed
Speaker 5: to have you guys. It's wonderful and I hope I
Speaker 5: can go ahead and make you guys proud again. This
Speaker 5: year and give you out everything I got. You know,
Speaker 5: I'm looking forward to that, hopefully lead this team to
Speaker 5: a super Bowl. That's the that's what I planned. My
Speaker 5: plan was this. Yeah, I'm sure that's everybody on this
Speaker 5: team playing, and I just want to be a part
Speaker 5: of that.
Speaker 3: Well, we noticed that through number shuffling today that ninety
Speaker 3: might be a vailable might be. Is that what it's
Speaker 3: going to be?
Speaker 4: Yes, sir, I'll be wearing my number ninety.
Speaker 6: That is.
Speaker 1: I like it, my number ninety, I like it.
Speaker 4: I have it back.
Speaker 3: JD. Thanks a lot for joining us. Good luck, sir,
Speaker 3: Thank you for having Mark.
Speaker 2: I said it before we talked to JD. I said,
Speaker 2: as we did, it's the greatest weird thing that I've
Speaker 2: seen in a while. It's been eight years since he's
Speaker 2: been here. We had a lot of different topics. I
Speaker 2: loved when he talked about his kids, uh and them
Speaker 2: giving a hard time when he was at Dallas a
Speaker 2: little bit. But that's a that's a dude that has
Speaker 2: grown up, and he's grown up with the the number
Speaker 2: one overall pick spotlight squarely on him at all times,
Speaker 2: and he's now going into his thirteenth year as a player.
Speaker 2: I think it's just it's amazing story. And now you
Speaker 2: start thinking about it, as we did this morning, about
Speaker 2: the impact he can have on this on this defense,
Speaker 2: on this team.
Speaker 3: It's so bizarre, Johnny, because he was teammates with Andre Johnson.
Speaker 3: You know they overlapped that year. So you think about
Speaker 3: the eras that he's played since then. I mean, he
Speaker 3: hasn't missed a beat. Really know, he's battled some injuries,
Speaker 3: but who hasn't. So Andre drafted in three clown He's
Speaker 3: still playing in twenty twenty six. This is the twenty
Speaker 3: fifth year of the franchise and he left. Now he's back.
Speaker 3: I think this is a great coaching staff for him,
Speaker 3: top to bottom. The d line coach is terrific for him.
Speaker 3: And look, there's a standard here. You don't meet the standard,
Speaker 3: you're not here. But he has every capability of meeting
Speaker 3: this standard. And I love that he's been in here.
Speaker 3: That means he's heard, he's seen. He says he's watched
Speaker 3: from afar. He knows what's going on here and he's
Speaker 3: eager to be a part of it. If you're him,
Speaker 3: is he ring chasing? I hope so, because I want
Speaker 3: him to be successful. I hope he is, and that
Speaker 3: means he's gonna do whatever he can to fit in
Speaker 3: best he can. He will wreck games along with Danil
Speaker 3: and Will and the whole gang up front. They've been
Speaker 3: doing it anyway, but to add him to the mix. Look,
Speaker 3: I love Derek Barnett, I love everything they've been doing
Speaker 3: off the edge depth wise, but you get your Devian Clowney.
Speaker 3: You only have to play him twenty five snaps a
Speaker 3: game or something like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is good. This is real good.
Speaker 3: Because if you were another team, Johnny, if you were
Speaker 3: I don't know, give me another squad where he's got
Speaker 3: to start the wear and tear. Are you gonna be
Speaker 3: able to count on that week and weekend? For this team,
Speaker 3: there's less wear and tear because there's less snaps. If
Speaker 3: he has to miss a game or two, okay, but
Speaker 3: you're gonna get him back, and you need to get
Speaker 3: him back in full health. This goes for everybody. If
Speaker 3: if you can hit the stretch run and the postseason
Speaker 3: with as many healthy bodies as possible and he's one
Speaker 3: of them, can you imagine what kind of success you
Speaker 3: can have. This is fun, This is what a great
Speaker 3: time to be a Texan.
Speaker 2: I know, I probably shouldn't use this because it's not
Speaker 2: the it's not the Astros.
Speaker 1: But in two.
Speaker 2: Thousand and four, the Red Sox had Pedro Martinez and
Speaker 2: Tim Wakefield was part of that lot, but he was
Speaker 2: the number two.
Speaker 1: But then he went on got Kurt Shilling.
Speaker 2: So all of a sudden, you got Kurt Schilling and
Speaker 2: Pedro Martinez and there's little old Tim Wakefield as the
Speaker 2: number three guy. It's like, hey, you face Shilling, you
Speaker 2: face Pedro, Like, oh man, okay, we get wait, oh god,
Speaker 2: we got to face Wakefield.
Speaker 3: Knuckleballer, ye knuckle ball. That was a return. That was
Speaker 3: a boomerang player's right, that was a.
Speaker 2: Boomerang boomerang player. And I don't know how many we've
Speaker 2: had here, but here's one for this. You know who
Speaker 2: was in the undrafted free agent class of twenty fourteen
Speaker 2: with the Texans. Tell me James Farrence. That's awesome, and
Speaker 2: he is now the IDEMS coach.
Speaker 1: That's pretty that's pretty amazing you think about it that way.
Speaker 3: So we're going to think of more of these two oh,
Speaker 3: I know, interesting little tie ins and tidbits totally. You know,
Speaker 3: we mentioned the twenty sixteen defense and people are thinking, well,
Speaker 3: why didn't you mention what because he was hurt that
Speaker 3: hurt there. You know, he didn't play all the games
Speaker 3: in the year, so he played me.
Speaker 1: Three against the Patriots and then that.
Speaker 3: Was it for the year. That was it, And you
Speaker 3: ended up having the number one defense anyway because Clowney
Speaker 3: and Merciless and all their friends played so well. And look,
Speaker 3: that was a long time ago. This is now. He
Speaker 3: looks good and you want to talk about on the
Speaker 3: whole off and everything. He looks good. He's been working
Speaker 3: out in Houston because he lives here. He's ready to
Speaker 3: go soon enough anywhere.
Speaker 1: Yeah, today we didn't get a chance to see him today.
Speaker 1: Rio was there.
Speaker 2: Rio was in there, but Jay had to get the
Speaker 2: physical and all that kind of stuffs.
Speaker 3: Today.
Speaker 2: I looked over at him at one point I tried
Speaker 2: to get his attention and he just you could just
Speaker 2: see it, like, oh man, today was Today was brewiyh.
Speaker 3: That's one of the headlines today. That was the hottest
Speaker 3: day of camp in a while. No breeze, no clouds.
Speaker 2: No clouds, that's rough. That's that's yeah. First day and pads,
Speaker 2: so you know, the intensity is ramped up. Uh Mark,
Speaker 2: I'll I'll say this, and I try to say this,
Speaker 2: and I do this each year because people are like, oh,
Speaker 2: you say this, each year you say this.
Speaker 1: I try to compare at different.
Speaker 2: Points from previous years because you never know when you know,
Speaker 2: when things have changed, things have changed, they're gonna you know,
Speaker 2: things will getting better, things can get worse, et cetera.
Speaker 1: So I try and have apples to apples comparison.
Speaker 2: So when I say that the offensive line has looked
Speaker 2: much much better, I'm actually comparing it to.
Speaker 1: Last year at this time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like five days in, Yeah, first five days.
Speaker 2: I like to do that comparison. Five days in and look,
Speaker 2: there's a there's a bigger hurdle. Get over and we'll
Speaker 2: talk about that. Is this group the best offensive line.
Speaker 1: In the NFL? Is the best thing?
Speaker 2: I'm not even going there. All I'm comparing it to
Speaker 2: is what we saw last year. And I can remember
Speaker 2: there were practices last year. I'd write my notebook, seven
Speaker 2: has to scramble, seven had to get out, seven had
Speaker 2: a dirt like I would have to put those moments
Speaker 2: in there because there just wasn't time to throw. I
Speaker 2: have seen time for quarterbacks to throw all three I
Speaker 2: have seen. I saw Woody Marx. I'm not the only
Speaker 2: one I saw it. Woody Marx burst through, burst through
Speaker 2: a hole, Keithan Rutledge knocking a guy out of the way,
Speaker 2: giving Woody a run through lane. No Whittington flying through,
Speaker 2: David Montgomery battering ram My new ing game for him
Speaker 2: is plus one because he is all every run it's
Speaker 2: a two yard run, he'll get three. It's a three
Speaker 2: yard run, he'll get four. He's always getting at least
Speaker 2: another positive yard. I feel like, and again I'm not
Speaker 2: telling you that everyone was going to the Pro Bowl,
Speaker 2: not telling you it's a bunch of all pros.
Speaker 1: Just comparing it last year to this year. This offensive
Speaker 1: line is light years away from what it was.
Speaker 3: So you're using the term that they were using with
Speaker 3: us after OTAs, because that's what the players were saying
Speaker 3: when we asked him about the offense this year versus
Speaker 3: last year at that point, they said, we're light years
Speaker 3: ahead because they know what they're doing now. And you
Speaker 3: and I talked to Nick Kelly about it. You know,
Speaker 3: you get up to the line. Now, you get up
Speaker 3: to the line, you get fifteen twenty on the place
Speaker 3: clock not eight nine seconds or less, and you have
Speaker 3: to just rush to play. Now CJ can look it over,
Speaker 3: maybe change protection if he has to, or come up
Speaker 3: with a different idea. Whatever the case is. You want
Speaker 3: to have that extra time, and it really helps. And
Speaker 3: it's so helpful to have a guy like David Montgomery,
Speaker 3: like you said, who gets those angry yards. Look, Joe
Speaker 3: Mixon was a hell of a pickup two years ago,
Speaker 3: There's no doubt about it. But he didn't practice in
Speaker 3: training camp. He wasn't with the encamp during training. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we see it with Montgomery. I said this morning, bubble wrap,
Speaker 3: I'm almost there. Yeah, I said, I gotta see him
Speaker 3: in pads first, then bubble wrap. I'm almost ready for
Speaker 3: bubble rap. At his age, I don't want to see
Speaker 3: too much more, but I know there's more to go
Speaker 3: in camp, and camp is a survival battle every day
Speaker 3: you get through camp. I don't see guys tended to
Speaker 3: like on the spot medically, who knows what they're battling
Speaker 3: in the trainer's room. I'm happy. I'm happy that there's
Speaker 3: no injury issue to deal with, or no obvious apparent injury. Now,
Speaker 3: there have been some guys who have needed a look.
Speaker 3: But it's been so far, so good, and let's keep
Speaker 3: it going.
Speaker 2: Yeah, some standout plays today I wrote about him at
Speaker 2: Harris Hits. Nico Collins one hand grab was tremendous on
Speaker 2: the near sideline. He was coming across me. He's literally
Speaker 2: coming all the way across the field, full sprint. CJ
Speaker 2: head to god pocket, fired it right down the sideline
Speaker 2: and Nico just reached out left hand and went and
Speaker 2: snagged it.
Speaker 6: That was good.
Speaker 2: I thought Jay Rock Jalen Smith had a really good day.
Speaker 2: A couple of really nice pass breakups on the day
Speaker 2: that was. That was good to see. Like I said,
Speaker 2: the Delvins liney looked good. I mentioned an undrafted free
Speaker 2: agent rookie offensive lineman that really caught my eye today
Speaker 2: with just a couple of plays just showing some physicality.
Speaker 2: So you have to get into Harri's Hits to see
Speaker 2: who that was. I like to T's Johnny.
Speaker 3: I like witting to trees, touchdown catch and so quick,
Speaker 3: very quick, so quick, very quick. He's gonna be one
Speaker 3: of these fun guys to watch in the preseason games
Speaker 3: starting next Thursday.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm gonna say something that I know we'll get
Speaker 2: me in trouble, but I got it. I gotta say
Speaker 2: it because I think it leads to why No Whittington
Speaker 2: is the runner that he is. Okay, his butt is
Speaker 2: is like so big and powerful, like I see where
Speaker 2: all the power comes from.
Speaker 3: All right, like loa as Charlie Cassley would say, Yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Mean his loess is I mean impressive, really really impressive.
Speaker 2: I think the running backs overall jaws noah. You know,
Speaker 2: British had a couple of runs today, but David and
Speaker 2: what do I think? The running backs have looked really good?
Speaker 2: And there was a lot of talk about going out
Speaker 2: and getting running back and there was a lot of reason,
Speaker 2: you know for that. We talked about, you know, should
Speaker 2: they are they gonna draft one? Should they draft one?
Speaker 2: They very confident with their top three and they felt like, look,
Speaker 2: we can get No Whittington is undrafted free agent here,
Speaker 2: We'll feel good about.
Speaker 1: That for along with British Brooks and right now.
Speaker 2: I I could see why they they have that confidence
Speaker 2: in that in that group, and it's, uh, it's been
Speaker 2: fun to watch.
Speaker 1: I put this in Harris hits as well.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell us last one before uh, we get
Speaker 2: to the McNair's in the next segment. So there were
Speaker 2: a lot of tight ends on the field today, a
Speaker 2: lot which take that for what it is. So Marlon
Speaker 2: Klein was working with different groups throughout. So he's on
Speaker 2: the left side and he's run play and he's got
Speaker 2: to block Daniel How do you.
Speaker 1: Think that way?
Speaker 3: Well, it's gonna be rough for the rookie. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: And it didn't go well. Right Theno kind of handles it.
Speaker 2: Danell kind of bounces off a tackle, kind of kind
Speaker 2: of MUCKs up the whole play, and I see Marlon just,
Speaker 2: I mean, Denil just kind of took him in. You know,
Speaker 2: Marlon's hanging out for dear life, and he just there's
Speaker 2: nothing he can do. And I was like, yeah, I
Speaker 2: wrote my notebook as like, uh, a tough day for
Speaker 2: the rookie you and I wrote down you had to
Speaker 2: go against the Neil et cetera, et cetera. A little
Speaker 2: bit later, now he's on the right side. They I
Speaker 2: can't remember what run play they ran. Now Marron's got
Speaker 2: to go against.
Speaker 3: Well Anderson and Anderson Jr.
Speaker 1: And I'll be damn if Marlon Kleine gets on the block.
Speaker 2: Now Will's trying to disengage from him, but as he does,
Speaker 2: he kind of slides inside.
Speaker 1: That's what That's what the Neil beat him with. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, Kline just kind of pivoted
Speaker 1: turned and pinned him inside in the back. I can't
Speaker 1: remember who it was the back then kind of ducked
Speaker 1: off a client's block. Oh it's Montgomery.
Speaker 2: Montgomery kind of ducks off, sees the block, sees client,
Speaker 2: kind of pin him inside, kind of goes off of clients.
Speaker 1: But he was at the ten yard line. He gets
Speaker 1: down about the three fights down to the one.
Speaker 2: I was like, wow, that was nice. So I didn't
Speaker 2: see the block initially, but I was like, where did
Speaker 2: Montgomery get the hole? So I looked up at the
Speaker 2: video and I'm watching the video and I saw it
Speaker 2: from behind, and I'm like, you know what, that's pretty
Speaker 2: damn good to go over on one side and the
Speaker 2: really struggle with the Neil Hunter and you're going to
Speaker 2: I mean, who doesn't right to come on the other side,
Speaker 2: and everybody struggles with Will Anderson and it was just
Speaker 2: stay sticky on the block, Just stay on it. And
Speaker 2: as a rookie to learn to go from that play
Speaker 2: to that play. I thought it was huge from Marlon
Speaker 2: Klin and AI is learning. AI is learning, and that
Speaker 2: a young guy learning like that and doing that.
Speaker 1: I thought was big. I thought it was it was
Speaker 1: really really big.
Speaker 2: Separating yourself in that tight end that Titian group I
Speaker 2: think is a lot better than people think, and him
Speaker 2: showing that blocking acumen. I mean, that's what That's what
Speaker 2: I think this organization wants to see from him, and
Speaker 2: they believe he can do that. But man, it's a
Speaker 2: challenge going against those damn defensive ends that you're gonna face. Absolutely,
Speaker 2: you know, tight end group, tough cuts. Man, that's how
Speaker 2: to be one of those.
Speaker 3: But we're early. We're going to continue to see it
Speaker 3: flow here. We need more information, no doubt.
Speaker 2: We got a lot of information from Callahan and McNair
Speaker 2: this morning. We had an absolute blast. Even though Cal
Speaker 2: is trying to give up State eight secrets. We wouldn't
Speaker 2: let him. But it's a great conversation. Stick around the
Speaker 2: stacks on Texans All Access.
Speaker 1: What's going on? Everybody? Welcome back to this Monday edition
Speaker 1: of Texans All Access.
Speaker 2: We kicked off the show the best way possible Jay
Speaker 2: d to deveon Clowney joined Mark and myself. Man, it
Speaker 2: was so fun to catch up with him and you know,
Speaker 2: talk about the good old days and talk about well,
Speaker 2: what's coming up the better new days, if you will.
Speaker 2: It was so fun to catch up with him. Well,
Speaker 2: we had a chance this morning to catch up with
Speaker 2: Cal and Hannah McNair. The conversation started with the fact
Speaker 2: that neither Mark nor I have been on the podcast
Speaker 2: on the fifty.
Speaker 1: Hannah talked about that to lead us off.
Speaker 7: It's so fun, you know, we have a good time
Speaker 7: on that show. I can't wait for some of the
Speaker 7: guests this year that we have in mind and surprise
Speaker 7: you probably.
Speaker 1: That you're sitting next to you. Maybe you might have
Speaker 1: to change the schedule.
Speaker 8: A little bit somewhere.
Speaker 6: At the top of the list, but you're on the list.
Speaker 1: On the list, listen.
Speaker 2: I just need to be in the door, cow, that's it.
Speaker 2: I just need to be somewhere in the vicinity. I'll
Speaker 2: be waving in the back.
Speaker 1: I don't care. When you had your sisters on, he
Speaker 1: totally derailed this. No, that was good, it's good.
Speaker 3: That was amazing. All right, there is how well you
Speaker 3: know each other and everything. You're playing kind of newly
Speaker 3: wet game.
Speaker 8: Thing like testing each other that there is a lot
Speaker 8: that got edited out and.
Speaker 3: Right, well that's the stuff we want to see though. Yeah,
Speaker 3: all right, well thoughts twenty fifth season, cal how special
Speaker 3: is this? And I know that the banner hangs here
Speaker 3: in the end zone honoring your mother, honoring our co
Speaker 3: founder and Hannah said the mother of the Texans on Saturday.
Speaker 3: What a great tribute as well. And I know that's
Speaker 3: got to be so bittersweet for lack of a better word,
Speaker 3: but your thoughts on the whole situation.
Speaker 6: A little bit overwhelming.
Speaker 9: There's a I mean, it's gonna be an incredible season
Speaker 9: for a lot of reasons. Of the top of my
Speaker 9: mind is his mom is celebrating her. Then we'll start
Speaker 9: the off with our Liberty White game. The first game
Speaker 9: will stensile up the field. We'll have some tributes. You
Speaker 9: love Liberty White game.
Speaker 6: Uh, she loved ball. She if she was here, she'd
Speaker 6: be out here.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 9: I had her little tent yep that we set up
Speaker 9: for her. But she wouldn't be staying inside. She'd be
Speaker 9: outside and the players would be coming up and saying
Speaker 9: hi to her, and she'd be making notes on her
Speaker 9: roster like she was in the Ota. She was out
Speaker 9: here in Ota. So that's really, you know, something we're
Speaker 9: gonna miss. And but we'll celebrate this year. And but
Speaker 9: like you mentioned, the twenty fifth years of special Year
Speaker 9: or two, mom and dad founded it together, and so
Speaker 9: that'll be kind of a celebration of her and dad
Speaker 9: in the twenty fifth year and being Texans, and and
Speaker 9: just a lot of good stuff. We have the new
Speaker 9: uniform coming up for rivalries, which will be a lot
Speaker 9: of fun. We have the game in London, which is
Speaker 9: gonna be a lot of fun. So there's a lot
Speaker 9: of things going on this year that's really going to
Speaker 9: be special. We can't we can't wait to get started.
Speaker 1: Before training camps started.
Speaker 2: Being a twenty fifth year, our social media team posted
Speaker 2: a video from day one, absolute day one, all the
Speaker 2: way back. What do you guys remember about year one?
Speaker 2: What do you remember twenty five years ago? What stood
Speaker 2: out to you about your one? I mean, obviously you
Speaker 2: the Cowboys are over at Reliant Stadium, gonna make sure
Speaker 2: I say that, But what do you remember about year one?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 9: Yeah, just starting from scratch, you know, and just having
Speaker 9: a there's no the league doesn't give you a playbook, right.
Speaker 9: The league says you want a team right and badfooted? Yah,
Speaker 9: have fun. And they were able to put it together
Speaker 9: and go out there and snap the ball and win
Speaker 9: the first game against a really good Dallas team.
Speaker 4: By it.
Speaker 6: It wasn't a slipshot. Dallas tear.
Speaker 9: They had playoff hopes, maybe even Super Bowl hopes, and
Speaker 9: our guys came out and took it. So it was
Speaker 9: an incredible win. And that's I mean, that's just a
Speaker 9: huge memory for me.
Speaker 8: We're all in that year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yep, there it is. Well, I know we
Speaker 3: are going to honor so many of the moments. Is
Speaker 3: it hard to boil down a list of all the
Speaker 3: great moments in Texans history? Because I know we've kind
Speaker 3: of gone over this as an organization and there's just
Speaker 3: so much to choose from.
Speaker 8: It really is.
Speaker 7: You wanted to get to the twenty five moments, and
Speaker 7: it was really hard to get to. I mean, how
Speaker 7: do you pick and choose? There's so many moments even
Speaker 7: last year. How many moments did you have.
Speaker 8: Just last year?
Speaker 7: Yeah, So it is really difficult. There's a lot to celebrate.
Speaker 7: Hopefully we can do more than twenty five. But there's
Speaker 7: there's some incredible athletes that we've had come through this
Speaker 7: organization and then some come back. I mean, we just
Speaker 7: had one come back yesterday, so you know that could
Speaker 7: there are always a Texan and we just appreciate everything
Speaker 7: every athlete has done for this organization, going all the
Speaker 7: way back to the two guys. You know, you had
Speaker 7: Chester Pits out there. He's still out here somewhere, yep.
Speaker 7: You know, Andre are Hall of Famer. Just so many
Speaker 7: different moments, you know, Seth.
Speaker 9: Pain, House of Pain, the House of Pain in that
Speaker 9: defense was really really strong yep, and anchored by Seth Pain.
Speaker 9: So there's a lot of like Hannahs saying, there's a
Speaker 9: lot of great athletes that came through here. Our group
Speaker 9: has tried to put together a twenty five year book,
Speaker 9: you know, and and it's really thick because there's a
Speaker 9: lot of memories, a lot of great athletes, and just
Speaker 9: really hard to pin it down to just a few things.
Speaker 2: But now, Cal, you mentioned a second ago something about
Speaker 2: rivalry jerseys. What can you all tell us because Cal
Speaker 2: is about to break some news and then that got
Speaker 2: shut down, So I don't want to hold Steph Bunce here.
Speaker 1: I don't want to. I don't want to step on toes.
Speaker 2: I wanna what can you tell us about these rivalry
Speaker 2: jerseys that are apparently coming our way this summer.
Speaker 9: I can't say anything. We're not gonna hand that over
Speaker 9: to Hannah, who won't go over the red line here?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Uh no, I think I I think the fans will
Speaker 7: really like it. I think they'll see h Town all
Speaker 7: throughout it. I think, you know, it'll just put a
Speaker 7: stamp on Houston in our history. And I think that
Speaker 7: the fans will like it.
Speaker 8: I really do.
Speaker 7: I'm really excited about it. Going through the process is
Speaker 7: always fun, but then when you see it on the guys,
Speaker 7: it's it really puts a whole other level to it.
Speaker 6: All Right.
Speaker 3: The schedule is amazing. It's also amazingly difficult. But the
Speaker 3: Texans are really good. This is going to be fun.
Speaker 3: Every game has this epic kind of feel to it already.
Speaker 3: So I'm going to say this, other than the Dallas game,
Speaker 3: give me a game or two that really pops out
Speaker 3: to you. They're all special, they're all important. The opener
Speaker 3: against Buffalo, my gosh, how could you ask for anything
Speaker 3: more so, what do you think, cal what pops out
Speaker 3: to you on the schedule Other than doubt.
Speaker 8: I already know his answer. Go ahead, Kyle.
Speaker 3: First game, yep, first game, First game.
Speaker 1: He's a football guy.
Speaker 8: The next game, the next game.
Speaker 6: I just want to win the next game.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: And that's the Bills.
Speaker 9: And they're a really strong team with a really really
Speaker 9: talented quarterback. New head coach I believe up there that
Speaker 9: we talked to in one of our mini processes, but
Speaker 9: a really bright young guy, especially particularly on offense and
Speaker 9: with quarterbacks. He coached a guy that's now at Cincinnati.
Speaker 9: But it's a you know, really solid team that's made
Speaker 9: a lot of playoff runs and it will be quite
Speaker 9: a challenge for us. But that's one I'm looking forward to.
Speaker 9: The opening the season, Liberty White at home, sold out crowd.
Speaker 9: We're gonna honor Mom. It's gonna be emotional for me
Speaker 9: and for handing everybody, Maybe for everybody, but that's the
Speaker 9: one I'm looking forward to. You can't wait to get it.
Speaker 3: How great is it to have Dallas on the schedule
Speaker 3: for the twenty fifth years at home?
Speaker 6: I know we've talked about that a lot.
Speaker 7: It is kind of crazy that it worked out that way,
Speaker 7: because you know, we only play them so much at home.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's pretty fine.
Speaker 9: And we love going to London, So we're going back
Speaker 9: to London this year and playing the Jags and their
Speaker 9: ownership group.
Speaker 6: We're really good friends.
Speaker 9: With will host us and do a great job and
Speaker 9: we have a pretty good record there in London, so
Speaker 9: we're looking.
Speaker 3: Forward to so far undefeated, all timeeated.
Speaker 7: We get along with the Cowboys, took Charlotte and I've
Speaker 7: worked together this year with flag football and trying to
Speaker 7: get at UIL sanctioned.
Speaker 8: So I've enjoyed that partnership with her.
Speaker 3: Well, that is a big effort between the two franchises
Speaker 3: right state wide, of course, the Texans have represented in
Speaker 3: the championship lest.
Speaker 8: More high schools, yes, yes, and more.
Speaker 3: High schools, So how about that. I mean, you have
Speaker 3: to be really happy with I know the Texans team
Speaker 3: lost in the championship, but you got all the way
Speaker 3: to the championship.
Speaker 7: Yes, they did incredible and it was Memorial High School
Speaker 7: which is their first year, so their first year out
Speaker 7: and they made it all the way to the state championships,
Speaker 7: which is pretty phenomenal. So congratulations to those girls. They
Speaker 7: were out here on Saturday, Saturday, Yes, Saturday, so they
Speaker 7: only had three seniors on that team, so they'll be
Speaker 7: almost a full squad coming back.
Speaker 8: Congratulations to them.
Speaker 3: So the team I helped coach clements, we lost to
Speaker 3: them in the district final.
Speaker 8: Oh and you're a good coach. You've been doing this
Speaker 8: a long time.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he doesn't want to hear.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 3: I love I love doing it. And they were really good.
Speaker 3: And they told me on Saturday their head coaches moving
Speaker 3: to Florida. I said, is your past rusher moving too?
Speaker 3: Because she was devastating to us. I really want to
Speaker 3: see that happen.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I think the head coach is going to work for
Speaker 8: Tampa Bay Buccaneers. I believe is that?
Speaker 2: So?
Speaker 8: I think that's right.
Speaker 6: That's amazing.
Speaker 3: Well, they got a great team coming back.
Speaker 2: Okay, so the two of us get talking about football
Speaker 2: at time. So now it's you two talking about this team.
Speaker 2: What you guys see early in camp, what excites you
Speaker 2: about this team? What do you like about this team?
Speaker 2: What do you like about the prospects in the twenty
Speaker 2: fifth year. I'm not saying you got to make any
Speaker 2: forecasts or anything, but what is it that you guys see,
Speaker 2: because I know you guys know ball.
Speaker 1: What do you guys see about this team?
Speaker 8: Oh, bab, you go first?
Speaker 6: You want me to go?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you go first.
Speaker 6: Well, I'm excited.
Speaker 9: I want to really about the in the trenches, guys
Speaker 9: on offense, guys on defense. We put a lot of
Speaker 9: assets there. The coachings really looks really good. They seem
Speaker 9: to be picking up stuff on the O line really well,
Speaker 9: and they're sticky. I mean they get on a block
Speaker 9: and they still on a block. So I'm excited to
Speaker 9: see how that shows up with pads on today. And
Speaker 9: on the defensive side, we added a couple of folks
Speaker 9: yesterday that can really play and help us, and they
Speaker 9: do a really good job on the D line in
Speaker 9: a rotation, and it's a rotation. I think we're getting
Speaker 9: pretty darn strong. And you're starting with those two guys
Speaker 9: on the outside that are unbelievable in building from there.
Speaker 9: So I'm really looking forward to the trenches. I believe
Speaker 9: that's where the game is won. I love to see
Speaker 9: us run the ball with demo we got back, there's
Speaker 9: really moving it, and I love to see us stop
Speaker 9: the run on defense. So when we go one on ones,
Speaker 9: it's really challenged because you're not one side makes a
Speaker 9: play and you're going.
Speaker 6: Yeah, wait what about the other side.
Speaker 9: So both really coming along and I'm really excited about
Speaker 9: the trenches this year.
Speaker 2: I think that's one of the things I've noticed in
Speaker 2: this camp thus far. And I told this to Mark
Speaker 2: after the first day, but after four days, just seen it.
Speaker 2: Instead of capital defns SE and lower case offense, it's
Speaker 2: been more even. It's been more swapping punches. You know,
Speaker 2: one time it's the offense getting it, then it's the defense.
Speaker 2: It feels more even in the attack hand of your
Speaker 2: thoughts about what you've seen, adding on.
Speaker 8: To what can just adding on to the trenches. I mean,
Speaker 8: our rookies are looking good out there.
Speaker 7: You have McDonald, you have Rutledge, and that's exciting to
Speaker 7: see in the young guys really coming out and making
Speaker 7: a statement, and you really like to see that. I
Speaker 7: think we've got some good vets on the line that
Speaker 7: are going to help them grow into the players they
Speaker 7: can be.
Speaker 8: But they're really talented and you're seeing that come out.
Speaker 4: I wanted to bring on the.
Speaker 9: Defense you have on each level. You have some really
Speaker 9: really unbelievable players on all three levels. So and that's
Speaker 9: coming along on offense too, So I mean that's.
Speaker 7: Where you want to be, and our tight end cruise
Speaker 7: pretty I mean what you're looking. There's a lot of
Speaker 7: depth in a lot of different areas. But and I
Speaker 7: was excited to see us ad to yesterday because we
Speaker 7: did lose two in the off season to free agency,
Speaker 7: So that's exciting to see those guys well at Chelsea.
Speaker 3: You're never done building a football team, right. Acquisitions can
Speaker 3: happen at any time and they could be really good,
Speaker 3: and you're not done building love volleyball. It's year three
Speaker 3: of off Houston and year two with the Texans in
Speaker 3: control of the organization. I know that there's been some
Speaker 3: acquisitions and things like that. We got Jordan back, which
Speaker 3: is amazing, and I know there's the rebranding and name naming.
Speaker 3: So we're down to final three. I have three names here, Houston.
Speaker 3: It's the Love Houston. You say it like that, Love Houston, Hype,
Speaker 3: love Houston, Hustle, Love Houston, Halo.
Speaker 1: Yes, those are the final three. Yes, So what's it
Speaker 1: gonna be?
Speaker 8: That's a great question. We need people to go online
Speaker 8: and vote for their favorite. So if you're.
Speaker 7: Listening to me, please just go take a minute go
Speaker 7: vote on your favorite name. Another fun, fun information is
Speaker 7: that Mertz yep, his girl is Isabelle and she is
Speaker 7: on our pro volleyball team. So now I thought him
Speaker 7: the other day, I was like, you're double dipping on
Speaker 7: our pro teams.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 8: Oh wow, so pretty.
Speaker 7: Incredible that we've got a little okay marriage between the organizations.
Speaker 1: They have to go to HR and announce like I
Speaker 1: had to do. I met my wife at the school
Speaker 1: we worked together.
Speaker 8: Like if they work.
Speaker 1: Together, like, don't they have to go to HR.
Speaker 8: They came in together, so I think it's.
Speaker 2: So yeah, man, I had to go HR back in
Speaker 2: the day because I was going out with my wife
Speaker 2: who worked at the same school I did. So yeah,
Speaker 2: we handled it and the ain't got married, I don't know,
Speaker 2: eight ten months later and the rest is history. So
Speaker 2: we'll see what happens with Graham. But it's gonna be fun,
Speaker 2: nonetheless to see those two together. All right, we get back,
Speaker 2: we'll go around in the league. There's plenty of stuff
Speaker 2: happened in the NFL, no question. We'll hit it next
Speaker 2: right here in Texas. All Access All right here we
Speaker 2: go Monday Initiative Texans All Access final segment. Appreciate you
Speaker 2: being with me. John Harris Football and all a sidelaide
Speaker 2: reporter for your Houston Texans and hosting this evening's proceedings.
Speaker 2: Appreciate you being with me. We had Geevian Clowney earlier.
Speaker 2: He was fantastic. He's so good to see him. We've
Speaker 2: seen him a few times, you know, through the different
Speaker 2: stops and he's great. He's like, hey man, he would
Speaker 2: be so excited to see me when we would be
Speaker 2: other places, I know, the Houston and a lot to him.
Speaker 2: So glad that he's back here with us.
Speaker 1: That was fun. So we had that. We had the
Speaker 1: McNair's that aweso.
Speaker 2: Let's go round the league and hit a few news
Speaker 2: items that are hitting the NFL. AJ Brown of the
Speaker 2: New England Patriots set on NFL Network the other day.
Speaker 2: He dislocated his thumb during practice on Monday. But in
Speaker 2: Brown's words, and I quote, I'm not coming out of
Speaker 2: practice thumb out of place, you keep going, Brown said
Speaker 2: he dislocated the same thumb midway through a season wide
Speaker 2: oh miss. He played through it, so he thinks he's okay,
Speaker 2: so we'll go with it. Mike Evans, speaking of receivers,
Speaker 2: did not practice due to it is due to a
Speaker 2: quad strain. Adding to the fact that Ricky Piersall is
Speaker 2: gonna go on ir missed the entire year, and rookie
Speaker 2: DeShawn Stribbling is day to day with a hamstring injury.
Speaker 1: That's nearly every single wide receiver in San Francisco.
Speaker 2: My goodness, they are man, they are just beset with
Speaker 2: injuries at that position. One of the hottest names across
Speaker 2: the NFL through the few days is rookie Cyrus Allen,
Speaker 2: wide receiver, kind of do it all player from Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: He got hurt on Saturday, I believe it was.
Speaker 2: It was a shin, and it caused kind of some
Speaker 2: consternation on the Twitter verse about, well, why was he
Speaker 2: back there returning punch or doing special teams. This guy's
Speaker 2: your best receiver. He'd been here four days, a rookie,
Speaker 2: late round rookie. So yhow it looks like he's gonna
Speaker 2: be okay. He should come back to practice later this week. Xave,
Speaker 2: you're worthy for the Chiefs. Dealing with his shoulder sprain,
Speaker 2: he should come back as well, but start worrying about
Speaker 2: the injuries with Xavier Worthy.
Speaker 1: There have been a few.
Speaker 2: Texans announced the signing of Sioni Taki Taki, which I
Speaker 2: asked my man Tommy Toguy about that.
Speaker 1: Forgot that those who played together with Cleveland.
Speaker 2: So we'll have that interview with Tommy Toegya probably tomorrow
Speaker 2: or tomorrow after noon. Also going on throughout the league.
Speaker 2: Kobe Bryant sign with the Bears this weekend for a
Speaker 2: lot of money. We left Seattle, was playing safety for
Speaker 2: them after a career at corner at Kansas, goes to Seattle,
Speaker 2: wins the Super Bowl. The Seahawks got big time free
Speaker 2: agent money to go to the Bears. He will miss
Speaker 2: the next two months if they're suffering a hyper extended
Speaker 2: knee bone bruis and small fracture in practice this weekend.
Speaker 2: Kobe Bryant out two months plus there with Chicago. That
Speaker 2: is going to be a tough start for the Bears
Speaker 2: without him. Kenny Pickett, he will start. Do you guys
Speaker 2: realize we have real It's football, tackle football. It's preseason,
Speaker 2: so some people don't call it real. I call it real,
Speaker 2: real football. Thursday night, it's Hall of Fame Game Panthers Cardinals.
Speaker 2: Kenny Pickett remember him, first rounder twenty twenty two. He
Speaker 2: will start at quarterback and Thursday Night's Hall of Fame
Speaker 2: game against the Cardinals. He should back up Bryce Young
Speaker 2: this year. Bryce Young, as CJ did when we went
Speaker 2: there at twenty four, will not play more.
Speaker 1: Likely in that game.
Speaker 2: So can you pick Itt? Gonna start for the Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 2: Speaking of former Texans, CJ. Gardner Johnson suffered lower calfstrain.
Speaker 2: So we got hurt in training camp again. Don't know
Speaker 2: when they're gonna get him back, but CJ. Gardner Johnson
Speaker 2: hurt for the Buffalo Bills. We should see them week one.
Speaker 2: CJ will be right back here to play against the
Speaker 2: Texans week one of the season if he is obviously
Speaker 2: back from injury. All right, that's gonna do it for
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Speaker 2: for you. We'll see it tomorrow. As always, Go Texans.